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Below is a list of articles about work I'm involved with:

Citizen science in general
1. 3 Rules for Successful Citizen Science (2012)
2. LA Makerspace, Citizen Science, and the LA River (2014)
3. LA Makerspace in general (2014)
4. Ariel Levi Simons on Behalf of LA Makerspace Interview (2013)
5. On the Front Lines of Citizen Science (2013)

Shellfish
1. Everyone poops, even in science (2017)
2. Oyster pseudofeces and you (2017)

Cosmic-rays
1. Reading the Heavens With Your Phone (2014)
2. App Turns a Smartphone Into a Pocket-Sized Cosmic ray Detector(2014)
3. Turn your Smartphone into a Cosmic-Ray Detector(2014)
4. TARGET: A multi-channel digitizer chip for very-high-energy gamma-ray telescopes (2012)

Urban biodiversity
1. Are food deserts also food monocultures? Proposing a citizen science project in urban ecology. (2015)
2. Are food deserts also food monocultures? Part 4: United States case study. (2015)
3. Are food deserts also food monocultures? Part 3: California case study. (2015)
4. Are food deserts also food monocultures? Part 2: New York City case study. (2015)
5. Are food deserts also food monocultures? (2015)
6. The ecology of the connected world. (2014)
7. What's in the LA river? Part 1. (2014)
8. Citizen science at LA Makerspace. Bioscan at the great insect map of Los Angeles. (2013)
9. Citizen science at LA Makerspace. Building a citizen science platform with the Global Sensor Web. (2013)
10. CURes Urban Ecolab at Bassett High School: What drives the cost of water? (2015)
11. The Pangea of commerce Part 1: What lives here? (2016)
12. The Pangea of commerce Part 2: Is it alive? (2016)

Education policy
1. What matters when Common Core does not. (2015)

Environmental policy
1. Gaia: Hedge fund manager (2016)

Radiation monitoring
1. Monitoring Fallout Decay (2013)

Air quality
1. Burning Brimstone: The Why and How of Measuring Sulfur Dioxide (2014)
2. Safecast Air: How Do We Determine What to Measure? (2013)
3. Citizen Science and Air Quality Monitoring in Tokyo (2013)
4. Air pollution monitoring project for LA wins Knight News Challenge grant (2012)

Social Science
1. How User Friendly is Your City? (2014)

Food
1. The Real Magic of Molecular Gastronomy (2013)